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virginal

/ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/

virginal adjective: being or resembling a virgin.

virginal: being or resembling a virgin
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Adjective

virginal (comparative more virginal, superlative most virginal)

  1. Being or resembling a virgin.
  2. Uncontaminated or pure.
  3. Parthenogenic.

Noun

virginal (plural virginal or virginals)

  1. A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.
    • His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business
    Synonyms:
    pair of virginals

virginal meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

virginal in Tamil

முற்கால யாழ் இசைப் பெட்டி

virginal in Urdu

باکرانا, دوشیزگانہ

virginal in Malayalam

virgin, unspoilt, untouched
കന്യകാവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള, ആരും തൊടാത്ത, അനാഘ്രാത, അചുംബിത, അസ്പൃഷ്ട, സ്പർശിക്കപ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്ത

Examples of virginal in a sentence

  • Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.
  • Her greatest pleasures were playing her lute or virginals, reading or sewing.
  • “I'm not some naïve, virginal little nothing who doesn't know which end is up.”

All 11 example sentences with virginal

Synonyms of virginal

Antonyms

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Forms of virginal

Adjective
comparativemore virginal
superlativemost virginal
Noun
pluralvirginal
pluralvirginals

Origin of virginal

From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls.

Words formed from virginal

Phrases with virginal

Questions about virginal

What does virginal mean?
Virginal means being or resembling a virgin.
What is virginal in Tamil?
Virginal in Tamil is முற்கால யாழ் இசைப் பெட்டி. See Virginal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is virginal?
Virginal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce virginal?
Virginal is pronounced /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/.

Words near virginal in the dictionary

  1. virgin vaults
  2. virgin wool
  3. virgin's bower
  4. virgin-born
  5. virgina
  6. virginal
  7. virginal membrane
  8. virginal membranes
  9. virginale
  10. virginales
  11. virginalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: virginal (page history and authors); virginal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virginal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virginal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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